Mindy Dossett

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 8) - Decoder-Only Generation: Building GPT From Scratch and Fine-Tuning distilgpt2

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 8) - Decoder-Only Generation: Building GPT From Scratch and Fine-Tuning...

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 7) - Transfer Learning: BERT, Sentence-BERT, and Why Pre-Training Changes Everything

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 7) - Transfer Learning: BERT, Sentence-BERT, and Why Pre-Training Chang...

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 6) — Attention and Position: Letting Every Word Look Directly at Every Other Word

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 6) — Attention and Position: Letting Every Word Look Directly at Every ...

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 5) — Local Patterns Without Order: CNNs for Text

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 5) — Local Patterns Without Order: CNNs for Text This is Week 5 of the...

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 4) — When Order Enters the Picture: RNNs, GRUs, LSTMs, and Bidirectionality

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 4) — When Order Enters the Picture: RNNs, GRUs, LSTMs, and Bidirectiona...

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 3) — From IDs to Meaning: Embedding in Vector Space

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 3) — From IDs to Meaning: Embedding in Vector Space This is Week 3 of ...

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 2) — Before Meaning: How Text Becomes Tokens

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 2) — Before Meaning: How Text Becomes Tokens This is Week 2 of the 9-w...

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 1) — Turning Text into Numbers

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Zero to Hero: NLP Classification & Generation (Week 1) — Turning Text into Numbers This post kicks off a 9-week hands-on s...

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Building My Own AI Health Coach: A 12-Week Journey

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I’m building my own AI health coach — not because I need another app, but because I want to be hiking the hard trails when I’m ...

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A Practical Guide for LLM Customization (Part 4): Fine-Tuning for Specialized AI Systems

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A Practical Guide for LLM Customization (Part 4): Fine-Tuning for Specialized AI Systems In our previous posts, we explored pr...

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A Practical Guide for LLM Customization (Part 3): Building Production RAG Systems

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In our previous posts, we explored the foundational techniques for LLM customization and mastered prompt engineering. Today, we...

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A Practical Guide for LLM Customization: Mastering Prompt Engineering

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In our first post, we outlined the three core techniques for LLM customization. Today, we’re diving deep into the most accessib...

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A Practical Guide for LLM Customization

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Large Language Models have revolutionized how we interact with AI, but out-of-the-box solutions rarely meet enterprise requirem...

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Break Free from ChatGPT's Model Limitations

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The Problem With GPT-5’s recent launch, OpenAI’s web interface has become more restrictive. Users are locked into whatever mod...

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How I Built My Personal Intermittent Fasting Coach with AI

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The Problem: Information Overload is Real Let’s be honest – trying to research intermittent fasting for women is like falling ...

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A Collaborative Filtering Movie Recommender in Java

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Introduction Collaborative filtering is one of the most popular recommendation engine algorithms for suggesting new products t...

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Gentle Introduction to A Fully Connected Neural Network

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Deep learning has become increasingly popular thanks to increased availability of computational power and large volumes of labe...

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Deploy Machine Learning Models using AWS Lambda and API gateway

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Today we will talk about how to deploy a Python machine learning model using AWS lambda with lambda layers and API gateway. The...

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Deploy Machine Learning Models in AWS EC2

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Although I am a big believer of serverless architecture, EC2 instances sometimes may be an easier option for deploying complica...

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Common Methods for Tackling Imbalanced Datasets

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One of the common machine learning classification challenges we face is an imbalanced data set. It can happen for binary and mu...

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Deploying Car Price Model

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This post deploys a car price prediction Flask app using an ensemble of a deep learning regressor with categorical embeddings a...

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StopWords and Lexicon Normalization for Sentiment Analysis

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Sentiment analysis aids in understanding human behavior for national security, political campaigns, and scientific research. It...

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Transfer Learning for Social Media Marketing

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Generally speaking, an average Instagram advertisement costs around $0.50 to $1 per click. In more competitive fields such as t...

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